Why? Because of us and our whiny bullshit.
is it really so offensive that a community dedicated to dominion would be upset with a clearly substandard dominion implementation? i am a little confused by your antagonism. where else should dominion enthusiasts discuss (and yes, complain about) goko? a bug in a new apple product would be near national news, but we are apparently not allowed to complain about a crappy dominion product? come on now. perhaps if goko actually responded to issues in their own forums it wouldn't spill over to here so regularly. could some of the criticism here be a bit more tactful? sure. but i also don't understand the seeming 'untouchable' status goko has for many users.
fwiw, grumblings have brought change in the past. i would remind people that when it was first released goko cost quite a bit more for all sets than it does now.
I don't think Goko is
strictly worse than isotropic.
When it's running
and free of lag
and I'm running the extension, I prefer it to isotropic. Visual appeal isn't everything, but it's something and I like Goko's look and
most (but not all) of its interface. But, yeah, that's a lot of caveats. Do we have the right to complain? Of course. Complain as much as you want. But know that the sheer volume and venom of the complaining makes isotropic
less likely to come back, not more.
Isotropic is not coming back while Goko still has a contract with Rio Grande Games. Period. Furthermore, everybody involved already knows that Goko has failed. Sending a message asking dougz to bring back isotropic is not just pointless, it's annoying. I suppose there is a chance that Goko has somehow already violated their contract with Rio Grande and Jay is choosing to do nothing about it. In that case, it might be worth sending a very polite request to Rio Grande Games asking whether Goko is holding up their end of the contract and if not, could something be done about it. But that's almost certainly not what's going on. Like it says in
this article, Goko doesn't have any obligation to even create a
semi-working implementation for its contracted properties. Those other hundred licenses they bought? They're just sitting around waiting to expire.
I don't presume to speak for Donald, but I would be shocked if he found that idea appealing after experiencing the backlash from the first shutdown.
the backlash was not because isotropic shut down. the backlash was because goko sucks and it was the only legal alternative. if the official implentation was quality you wouldn't hear much of a peep about isotropic.
False. There are lots of people who complained about having to pay for the virtual game when they'd bought the physical one, those who complained about the loss of the text-based interface (which no professional company is going to allow), etc. Even if Goko hadn't had all these issues, there would have been plenty of complaining. Less, certainly, but still plenty.
So I have a different idea: A sit-in.
We pick a time/date... ideally some sort of peak time on a weekend. We all log in, fill up the lobbies as much as we can... and sit. Not playing games, not playing adventures, not doing anything other than sitting in the lobby and chatting in their horrendous chat system. We'd need a critical mass of 100 or more people, with the intent of filling the first two or more lobbies with non-players, eventually causing the games being played in those lobbies to drop to zero. Ideally, organize people so there are normally 49 sitters in each lobby, so that people coming in will have the chance to see what's going on and wonder why no games are happening.
Obviously, we'll need to tell them what we're doing.
It does little more than send a message. But perhaps that sort of message is the best we can do.
This could work, but wouldn't it use up more of their resources if we actually kept playing Dominion during the sit-in?
Like GE, I think it's fine to be vocal about our concerns with Goko. There's no reason to suffer with a bad product when it's entirely possible to change things. I applaud SCSN in being willing to try and take action. That said, I think I also agree that contacting RGG and voicing concerns is better than setting up a Pirate Radio Isotropic. For one, I don't think dragging dougz in to this is a good plan; he's the one with something to lose if he brings back the site, and it's awfully entitled of us to say he should run the servers from his basement at his own personal risk. If he wants to, great, but that should be his own decision.
I strongly agree.